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		rcleveng 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative sh... If your language supports generators, this works a lot better than making copies of the entire dataset too.

akshayshah 1 day ago | [–]

Sometimes, sure - but sometimes, passing around a fat wrapper around a DB cursor is worse, and the code would be better off paginating and materializing each page of data in memory. As usual, it depends.

KlayLay 1 day ago | [–]

You don't need your programming language to implement generators for you. You can implement them yourself.

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